General Politics Discussion VII [ARCHIVED] • Page 982

What

 

"A great day for equality"

 

I want off this ride so bad

 

Jfc

 

Like I said before, all reform would be doing is giving the cops new laws/regulations to break and get away with. Unless we are ending their qualified immunity and dismantling their union, which at that point is almost abolishing them lol

They have ignored or dismantled every reform we've put on them (just look how the body cam thing worked) and at this point I don't think most people protesting are willing to settle and let them do that again

 

I liked this thread.

 

Plus if we abolish the police we are also get the bonus of ruining private prisons ! Two birds stoned at once

 

The video.

 

de Blasio just fucking lying and gaslighting on WNYC right now

 

trying to find the tweet but San Francisco has every 8 can't wait protocol and there's still police brutality, I agree that it's the bare minimum and makes sense in theory but in practice it won't work, the fact that it's controversial is scary

 

Also wasn't the 8 can't wait started by a scam account/fake charity?

 

Taking a victory lap at 14% unemployment and an uncontained pandemic with 110k dead, protests in every major city, is ***a choice***

 

No, campaign zero does some good stuff and research.

 

Oh word I thought a video was posted linking them to someone sus but i guess I shouldn't trust everything I see

 

Campaign Zero

It’s framed to be easy to digest and palpable to the white liberal, Which is probably why it’s been popular on social media.

their research section has some good tools though: joincampaignzero.org/#research

 

It's DeRay so use your own judgement

 

No it is a real person and real activist group. But they draw criticism from BLM

 

Thanks for clearing it up!

 

De Blasio now defending kettling, very cool

 

happy birthday Breonna her Twitter is so sad

 

How is this hard to comprehend for people?

 

Yeah I mean, I get that it won't solve the problem of police brutality but it helps. It's baffling that there are still cities all cross America that don't have common sense policies in place like requiring officers to de-escalate, require comprehensive reporting, lethal force as a last resort, etc. San Francisco actually does have one of the lowest rates of police killings for major cities, not saying they don't have problems with police brutality, but without those policies I imagine things would be worse.

Like you said, 8 Can't Wait is literally the bare minimum of what we should be doing, but doesn't mean we shouldn't also be trying to end qualified immunity, demilitarize the police, cut funding and funnel it to other aspects of the community, etc.

I Like Campaign Zero's page of overall solutions which go way more in depth than the 8 Can't Wait and talk about. The 8 Can't Wait campaign seems more of the immediate goal of just finally actually doing something.